Priming Effects on Subsequent Episodic Memory: Testing Attentional Accounts.

ABSTRACT: Prior work has shown that priming improves subsequent episodic memory, i.e., memory for the context in which an item is presented is improved if that item has been seen previously. We previously attributed this effect of "Priming on Subsequent Episodic Memory" (PSEM) to a sharpening of the perceptual/conceptual representation of an item, which improves its associability with an (arbitrary) background context, by virtue of increasing prediction error (Greve et al, 2017). However, an alternative explanation is that priming reduces the attentional resources needed to process an item, leaving more residual resources to encode its context. We report four experiments that tested this alternative, resource-based hypothesis, based on the assumption that reducing the available attentional resources

SUBMITTER: Kaula AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613199 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature